Red is a new programming language inspired by REBOL, but compiled and open source. The language is currently being bootstrapped by first implementing a lower level dialect, in which the high level, dynamic language will be written. This C class dialect for systems programming, Red/System, has reached beta status after only half a year of development. It now supports using dynamic libraries on Syllable. Also, a new version of Syllable Desktop's FTP client, Transferrer, was released (screenshot accessing Syllable Server).

Jam is all nice and good but if the third party package uses GNU Make, you have to use GNU Make. The other parts of Syllable are just fine with GNU Make: most Syllable specific Makefiles are really quite simple.